Is DajjÄl a person or a movement?

The Martyr Sayyid Muḥammad Ṣadr wrote in his valuable book:

“DajjÄl is a specified culture, civilization and ideology which is the enemy of Islam.”

He believed Western materialistic culture and civilization, is the very DajjÄl in narrations.

And he introduced DajjÄl, as a symbol and allusion of anti- material and anti-Islamic movements.

In his book “The global governance of Imam Mahdi (hgr)”, AyatollÄh MakÄrim ShÄ«rÄzÄ« wrote:

 

“According to the whole narrations about DajjÄl, one can conclude that the word refers to flow of thinking, not a specific person.”

[However], some researchers and scholars such as the late DwÄnÄ« believed that “DajjÄl is a specific person.”

Although each of them brought up some reasons,

The first view is further strengthened, through accuracy and full attention in narrations,

 

 

MahdÄ«sm in á¹¢iḥÄḥ Sittah, P.151-153

 

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